Tender invited for Development of Train Collision Avoidance System

4.1.1 Contract Package A (Approx. 50%) : Wadi (excluding) – Vikarabad –
Sadashivpet Road (including) – Chitgidda (including) section of approx.
140 km.
4.1.2 Contract Package B (Approx. 30%) : Sadashivpet Road (Excluding) -
mid- block section interlocked level crossing gate no. 13 (between
Sadashivpet Road – Marpalli) (including) – Bidar (Including) section of
approx. 70 km.
4.1.3 Contract Package C (Approx. 20%) : Chitgidda (Excluding) - Gullaguda
(including) – Lingampalli (including) section of approx. 40 km.
4.2 Deleted.
4.3 In case, only one tenderer is awarded the work through this tender, although multivendor
interoperability shall not be feasible to be tested but the tenderer shall be
liable to provide all information and requirement to achieve so at later stage and
shall undertake the commitment to do so should the need so arise at a later date
beyond the completion period of the contract. The tenderer shall also be required to
undertake the commitment to continue providing professional services to Indian
Railways with regard to this product in future in terms of supply, installation and
maintenance of the product in long term on further proliferation.
4.4 The System Software development includes development of generic software and
application data and development of failsafe communicate protocol also
considering mutual interference on account of communication in normal conditions
and over-reach.
4.5 Apart from multi-vendor interoperable functioning of various TCAS components
viz. Loco Equipment, Stationary Equipment and Trackside Equipment, Tenderer
shall provide by converging design that the front-end of man-machine interface is
identical by different tenderers in terms of formats, methods and interpretation to
the extent possible and agreed by RDSO so as to have unified operating
instructions, decided on the basis of experience and during the course of
development through this contract.
4.6 Software validation of the system shall be carried out as per applicable CENELEC
standards to ensure SIL (Safety Integrity Level) as specified in Technical
Specifications from an independent approved software test house or any other
agency agreed to by the purchaser. The software validating agency shall be reputed
such as IIT, Jadavpur University, DRDO etc. who have experience in carrying out
validation of safety critical software.
4.7 The tenderer shall follow the laid down development process and prepare all the
documentation for design and development of the complete system in accordance
with applicable CENELEC standards. All documents shall be property of RDSO,
Ministry of Railways (India)
4.8 Every station/IBS/ mid- block section interlocked level crossing gate needs to be
provided with UHF transmitter/ receiver to provide adequate radio coverage around
the station/ IBS/ mid- block section interlocked level crossing gate for
communication with the locomotives. The firms are required to carry out the
design of the antenna, power output requirement. The firms are also required to
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